Opinion

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I’m living in a uv world

Posted on December 1, 2025 by Chris Griffith Coding Opinion Overview 0

Earlier this year at PyCon 2025 I avoid several talks about python packaging that include talks about this new uv thing. I felt very validated doing so as after talking to others that went to those talks, as they felt the the speakers were very preachy...

The GPL is Evil

Posted on September 1, 2023 by Chris Griffith Opinion 0

Most people are blasé at best on the different open source licenses, and don’t take any time to chose between them. So if you only read this first paragraph, make sure to use a license like Apache, MIT, or BSD and not GPL! No other license...

You Should Use all

Posted on July 7, 2023 by Chris Griffith Coding Opinion Tutorial 0

In the latest Python Weekly issue 607, there was a well written article by James Turk called You Don’t Need __all__ (waybackmachine backup link) which seemed to miss an important point I wanted to discuss. With no way to comment on his blog, I decided might...

Stop Re-Encoding Videos!

Posted on April 5, 2021 by Chris Griffith Opinion Video 8

I know this may sound like a weird statement coming from the author of FastFlix, but from the bottom of my heart, please stop the needless pixel loss! Every time you re-encode (aka transcode) a video it losses information, which lowers the quality and makes it...

Let it Djan-go!

Posted on June 17, 2020 by Chris Griffith Coding Opinion 0

Do you know someone who hails from the strange land of Django development? Where there are code based settings files, is customary to use a ORM for all database calls, and classes reign supreme. It’s a dangerous place that sits perilously close to the Javalands. Most...